The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-04-20
News Condensations.

Sam Jones is supporting four young
men at college in Georgia.
1t is reported that the snow is still
ten ieet deep at Cooke City, Mon
tana.
A citizen of Santa Rosa, Cal, re-
Gently ate forty raw eggs in twenty
five minutes.
The Pennsylvania Legislature is
considering a bill to prohibit spirit
medium exhibitions.
1t is feared by the friends of the
late John T. Raymond that he died
from an overdose of morphine.
A Knight Of Labor and Granger
have been named by Gov. Hill for
the New York railroad commission.
A new color just introduced at
London is called jubilee blue. 1t is
appropriate to the outlook in Ireland.
Preparation are being made at st.
Louis to entertain all who may at
tend the Grand Army encamr ment.
Mr.. Thebe, of Covington, denies
that he has abandoned his contest
for Speaker. Carlise's seat in Con-
gress.
Four heavy shocks of earthquake
we're experienced at Burlington, vt.
People ran into the streets in a
panic.
President Cleveland daily receives
large number of invitations to at
tend various kinds of doings through
out the country.
Nora Brown, fat negress, of San
Atomic, Tex, has within seven years
become white, with the exception OF
her neck and finger tips.
The New York Sun is authority
for the statement that Mr.. Blaine
will sail for Europe in June and re.
main abroad for over year.
A colored Baptist evangelist at De
Soto, Mo-, was taken from his house
by masked men and logged for an
hour with hickory switches.
Matters are growing rapidly worse
in the drouth stricken regions of
Texas. The light rains of last week
having done but very little good.
At the conference Of the Latter
Day Saints at Cleveland, o., Presi-
dent Joseph Smith delivered a point
ed sermon in which he denounced
polygamy.
Leland Stanford, president of the
Southern Pacific Railway company,
declares that the inter. state com
merce law will abolish through hauls
on that road.
The Interstate Commerce Com
missioners vary in height from the
gigantic Walker, who is much over
six feet in height, to Judge Cooley,
who is only about five feet six.
In Wal.ingford, Conn, there is
said to be woman rs years of age
who has raised family of fifteen
children and had six husbands, the
lady having been bride three times
since her Goth birthday.
The handsomest man at the Capital
Is said to be Doo.keeper Donelson of
the House of Representatives,. He
is six feet tall, has iron gray hair, a
small, curling mustache, clear com.
plexion and pair of brilliant steel
blue eyes.
Mr.. John w. Davis, who has just
been elected Governor of Rhode
Island, was chosen by the Democrats
of Pawtucket as candidate for the
first Town Councilman in 1882, and
every body asked: "Who on earth
is John w. Davis?"
At Richmond, Ind, Mrs. Jonas
Bennett walked out on the bridge
over the Whitewater river and leap
ed seventy five feet into the water,
expiring almost instantly. She was
a bride of three days. Insanity is
alleged as the cause.
John T.Rayinond leaves a wife, who
was known as Mrs. Courtney Barnes,
and who is daughter Of Rose Ely
tinge, the actress. Raymond was a
great sport, and would flip a penny or
match Tor any amount. His first
wife, from whom he was disvorced,
lives in London.
A number of the leading business
men of Chicago are preparing pro-
test against the action of the Inter
States Commerce Commission in sus-
pending the long and short haul
clause at various points upon the re-
quest of business communities and
railroad companies.
Thomas Stanley, of New York,
who lost his eyesight through the ex
plosion of shell, while fighting under
General Terry on the frontier against
Indians, and who served previously
in the civil war, had his pension IN
creased from $24 to SIS per month,
and also an allowance of between So
300 and $1,000 back pension. He
was so overcome by the news that he
ell in fit and expired.
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